as journaled by Brittany
42 miles
10:50
Departure
11:54
Another day, another bike shop. Ha! Actually, I’m at a grocery store with Lydia, Joshua, David and Mommy at the moment. It’s the others who are at the bike shop, trying to fix the girl’s bike again. As you can see, that’s become an annoyingly persistent issue. I’m sure Daddy will explain it more in is his own posts – the art of bike engineering techno-babble isn’t really something I understand beyond the simple stuff.
Hang on – Lydia’s been reading over my shoulder and wants to say hi. There, Lydia, I wrote it down. Happy now? Good. (Now she says I’m mean. Deal with it, Lyds.)
She, Joshua and I are waiting outside the store, relaxing with the bikes, while mommy and David shop for lunch and dinner for today and tomorrow’s breakfast. And, hopefully, pick up more snacks. Someone (cough Joshua cough) fed David most of the snack bars we had left, and we have barely any left.
Actually, besides the whole eating four bars in two hours thing, David’s been pretty good this trip. His main complaint is that he wants to get out of his chair more often in order to run around: which, bizarre as it seems to the rest of us (our main complaint of him is that he doesn’t seem to appreciate how easy he has it) actually makes sense.
To be honest, he’s probably doing the best out of all of us. The hard works and long hours are weighing on us, affecting everyone in different ways. I shut up, keep my head down, try to focus on getting one mile at a time over with. Caleb overreacts to the smallest things. Tempers are growing short, and little arguments are blowing up into huge conflicts.
Hopefully we can make camp early today, get a chance to relax and unwind. That’s really all we need, I think.
19:45
Arrival
21:07
Today has to be the earliest we’ve ever made a place we were staying tonight (besides the practice trip, which was a measly 27 miles – yes, I did just say that, yes, this bike trip is driving me [pun intended] insane), and it was 42 miles, and we ended up taking forever at the grocery store/bike shop/hardware store.
Speaking of I was mistaken earlier when I said Daddy and the others were going to the bike shop. Turns out they were just massively delayed. We ended up all going to the bike shop, staying there and eating lunch for a while, and then going to the hardware store to repair a few things.
Around 22:30-23:00
The rain begins (DUN DUN DUN!!!!!)